Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
Description:
Paint-decorated and Stenciled Mark Leavenworth Pillar & Scroll Clock, Waterbury, Connecticut, c. 1825, stenciled and paint-decorated mahogany scroll-top case with original brass finials, painted wooden dial with raised gilt and painted spandrels, lower glass depicting a country estate with pendulum aperture, thirty-hour time and strike wooden works movement and interior paper label, ht. 30 in.
Estimate $1,000-1,500
original stencil decoration, finials, both glasses, scrolls and feet. Exceptional example
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WaterburyJonathan Dowling
Director, Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
508-970-3131
Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
From early timekeeping devices to precision regulators, the Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments department covers centuries of invention and function with trusted appraisals and world-competitive auctions.